es a
severe cold. During this stage the diseases are most easily
communicated. Measles in particular is generally not recognized until
its most infectious stage has passed. The moral to be drawn is that sore
throats, coughs, and colds should never be regarded lightly, and that
their spread should be prevented by all possible means.

The accompanying table taken from the regulations of the New York State
Department of Health, gives symptoms of communicable diseases among
children, and rules for isolation and exclusion from school.

NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AMONG CHILDREN
RULES FOR ISOLATION AND EXCLUSION FROM SCHOOL

HERMAN M. BIGGS, M.D.
Commissioner

Issued by the
Division of Public Health Education

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DISEASE | PRINCIPAL SIGNS | METHOD OF |
| AND SYMPTOMS | INFECTION |
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CHICKENPOX | Rarely begins with fever. | Contact with discharges |
| Rash appears on second day | from nose and throat of |
| as small pimples, which in | a patient. |
| about a day become filled | |
| with clear fluid. This fluid | |
| becomes yellow colored, a | |
| crust forms and the scab | |
| falls off in about 14 days. | |
| Successive crops of papules | |
| appear until tenth day. | |
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DIPHTHERIA | Onset may be rapid or | Contact with discharges |
| gradual. The back of the | from nose and throat, |
| throat, tonsils, or palate | occasionally by |
| may show patches. The most | drinking infected milk. |
| pronounced symptom is sore | |
| throat. There may be hardly | |
| any symptoms at all. | |
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